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...inflation, and newshawks put this together with previous dope stories that New York's Judge Rosenman had already submitted a tentative plan built around the formation of an Economic Stabilization Authority. To it might be named Leon Henderson, William H. Davis, Marriner Eccles, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Claude Wickard and a chairman appointed by the President...
Farmer Claude Wickard* wants to produce, as all farmers do. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard wants to get along with people, as administrators must. Last week he jumped off the fence he had straddled between his two instincts...
Eight months ago Farmer Wickard, the producer in favor of production, supported the stand of the grasping Congressional farm bloc. Results: 1) The price control bill assured farmers a hefty chunk of money by prohibiting ceiling prices on farm products until the market price reached 110% of the 1909-14 purchasing power; 2) the bill gave Farmer Wickard veto power over any food price OPAdministrator Leon Henderson might...
...Meanwhile Claude Wickard suggested a stopgap: let them eat cheese and thereby ease the Government-subsidized glut in the cheese market...
...farm products below 110% of parity. So far, no farm ceiling has been imposed at any level, but last week, with steers and hogs fetching over 130% and 125% of parity, Leon asked the Secretary of Agriculture about price-fixing to ease pressure on packers and butchers. Claude Wickard recognized a hot potato when he saw it, decided to let it cool a while...